Ares, as he was known inGreek mythology, (PROSE:Wandering Stars) orMars inRoman lore, (PROSE:The Slave War) was themythological "god ofWar" of both cultures. As with the otherOlympian gods, various accounts depicted him as a real entity, disagreeing on the details. (COMIC:The Life Bringer!,PROSE:Wandering Stars, etc.)

According to one account, he adopted other names over the course of human history includingHachiman,Mont, and ultimately, by the20th century,Dennis'. (PROSE:Salvation)

Biography[[edit] |[edit source]]

By one account, he was one of theOlympians, an advanced race from the planetOlympus. OnZeus's orders, he helpedApollo dragPrometheus to acell and confine him there. (COMIC:The Life Bringer!)

By another account, Ares and his fellow gods were native toGreek Space, a dimension composed of metaphor. He was a brother ofEris, and sometimes also the father ofEros. Ares fell in love with another of his own sisters,Aphrodite, causing chaos throughout Greek Space;Iris Wildthyme was able to broker a treaty between them once she realised that "the 'being defeated and enslaved' bit" was the aspect of war that Ares liked best. (PROSE:Wandering Stars)

She later encountered him again in a tavern onMars, where he believed that he had been trapped by the Roman godMars; however, Ares later realised that he was Mars and had just gotten confused. (PROSE:The Calamari-Men of Mare Cimmerium) By one account, in which theGods of Myth were otherworldly entities shaped by human belief, Ares was the individual later known as Hachiman, Mont, and in the 20th century Denni. (PROSE:Salvation)

According to mythology, Mars had two sons,Deimos andPhobos; hence, with the planetMars being named after him, its two moons,Deimos andPhobos, were named after his children. (AUDIO:Phobos)

TheWar Doctor was compared to Mars. (PROSE:A Prologue)

Appearance[[edit] |[edit source]]

Ares trapped in a tavern onMars (PROSE:The Calamari-Men of Mare Cimmerium)

When the Fourth Doctor encountered Ares on Olympus, he was a heavy-set shirtless man wearing a blue bandana. (COMIC:The Life Bringer!) When Iris Wildthyme encountered Ares in Greek Space, he was short, scrawny and ruddy-featured, and looked to be only fifteen years old. (PROSE:Wandering Stars) When she encountered him again in a tavern onMars, he was more than eight feet tall, absurdly muscular, naked apart from a ragged loincloth and gladiator sandals, and with matted hair and beard; he had a Greek-style helmet, golden with a red mane. (PROSE:The Calamari-Men of Mare Cimmerium)

When he appeared as Dennis in 1965, he wore the pristine uniform of a US Army officer, had stern, impassive features, and wore the brim of his cap low to hide his eyes. (PROSE:Salvation)